Commission Decision of 3 July 2008 amending Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries (notified under document number C(2008) 3301) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/592/EC)

Article 1 U.K.

Decision 2000/572/EC is amended as follows:

1.

Article 3 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 3

The importation of meat preparations is subject to the following conditions:

1.

they have been produced in accordance with the relevant requirements laid down in Regulations (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1), (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(2), (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(3) and (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council(4) as specified in the health certificate referred to in Article 4(2) of this Decision;

2.

they come from an establishment or establishments implementing a programme based on the hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) principles in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 852/2004;

3.

they have been frozen at an internal temperature of not more than – 18 °C at the production plant or plants of origin.’;

2.

Article 4a is amended as follows:

(a)

in point (a), ‘Decision 94/984/EC’ is replaced by ‘Commission Decision 2006/696/EC(5)

(b)

in point (b), the words ‘Decision 94/984/EC’ are replaced by ‘Decision 2006/696/EC’.

3.

Annexes II and III are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2 U.K.

This Decision shall apply from 1 July 2008.

However, consignments of meat preparations for which health certificates were issued in accordance with the model established by Decision 2000/572/EC before the amendments introduced by the present Decision and with an issue date prior to 31 December 2008, shall be accepted for import into the Community until 1 April 2009.

Article 3 U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 3 July 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla Vassiliou

Member of the Commission